Texas Border Wall

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Texas is separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande River. The heavily populated Rio Grande Valley is at the center of opposition to the planned border wall, a combination of concrete walls, steel fences and "virtual fencing" designed to stop illegal immigration and smuggling across the river.

Walls hold the history of a place. In an imaginary border wall, the surface, location, and history speaks to a place where the interaction between individuals and materials accumulate to create new meaning contributing to and capturing this public narrative. See images »